57 dirty rotten cheats exposed at Leicester in the past five years

Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act reveals cheating disgraces committed in University of Leicester exam halls over the past 5 years. 

It seems exam cheating takes place even in higher education  as revealed by information concerning cheating offences and sanctions for Leicester University students.

Leicester’s most scandalous exam period proved to be 2010-2011, which saw 22 incidences of cheating take place.

At present, deceitfulness in exams is still pretty hefty with 14 occurrences in 2013-2014.

The Big Shed, one of Leicester’s exam venues

2009-2010 was by far the most low-key year with only one student reported. From there on things have gone progressively downhill; 9 cases in 2011-2012 and 11 in 2012-2013.

The most common form of cheating across these 5 years has been possession of unauthorized materials in the exam room such as revision notes and crib sheets.

As a result, the most common penalty was a mark of 0 for the paper. Every single incident since 2009, bar one, has suffered this consequence.

Revision notes don’t just stay in the library apparently

Other methods of cheating included writing on hands and body, arriving late into the exam room, further unauthorised materials such as calculators and calculator lids, illicit materials in the toilets discovered after the exam and conspiracies amongst students found to be sharing their work.

The latter has occurred 4 times since 2010. However, there are some atrocities yet to be executed in UoL exam halls.

The use of phones, dissertation plagiarism, student-teacher collusion and intoxication in the exam room are all punishable as acts of cheating.

But Leicester remains squeaky clean in these areas.

So far.